‘The fate of a Queen – the destiny of a planet’
Sumuru is a 2003 sci-fi fantasy film in which women rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines.
Directed by Darrell Roodt (The Lullaby; Lake Placid: Legacy; Cryptid; Dracula 3000) from a screenplay co-written by Harry Alan Towers, Peter Jobin and Torsten Dewi, loosely based on Sax Rohmer’s 1950s books featuring the titular character. The movie stars Alexandra Kamp, Michael Shanks and Simona Williams.
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Choice dialogue:
Adam Wade: Your planet is not in the best of shape. The core is unstable.
Sumuru: The quakes?
Adam Wade: Yeah, they’re caused by that snake monster you’ve got in the pit.
Sumuru: Is that so? We mine oil and gas deep in the rock, and every time the world shakes, my engineers measure every movement.
Adam Wade: But the… ah… sacrificial ceremony to the serpent goddess?
Sumuru: Taxan? At one point, our people got so scared of the quakes that they turned to religion for an answer. Taxan has been feeding on that ever since.
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